Joint (Cross-Cutting) IASC Working Groups Meeting 2025

20 March 2025 | 14:00 - 17:00 (MST)

Open Session - HYBRID

Room: Glen Miller Ballroom in UMC - 210

Organisers: Gerlis Fugmann (IASC, Iceland)

Event Description:

Joint meeting of all five IASC Working Groups (Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Marine, Social and Human, Terrestrial). More information at: https://iasc.info/our-work/working-groups
The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is a non-governmental, international scientific organisation. The Founding Articles committed IASC to pursue a mission of encouraging and facilitating cooperation in all aspects of Arctic research, in all countries engaged in Arctic research and in all areas of the Arctic region. Overall, IASC promotes and supports leading-edge interdisciplinary research in order to foster a greater scientific understanding of the Arctic region and its role in the Earth system. More information at: https://iasc.info/

 

Overview Agenda: 

Chair: Henry Burgess (IASC President / NERC Arctic Office, UK)

14:00 - 14:05	1. Opening
14:05 - 14:20	2. IASC Update
14:20 - 14:30	3. Introduction of the 2025 IASC Fellows
14:30 -15:30	4. Reports from the IASC Cross-Cutting Projects 2024
	4.1 Completed Cross-Cutting Projects Summer School and Workshop on “Polar Climates: Theoretical, Observational and Modelling Advances” Chemical, biogeochemical, and physical drivers of the coupled polar atmosphere and climate: an IPY 2032-33 planning workshop Impacts of the changing land-based cryosphere on Arctic society IASC-FOX workshop to develop and coordinate input to the ICARP IV engagement phase from an early-to-midcareer perspective AQUIRE – Assessment of key research QUestions for ArctIc freshwateR biodivErsity BEPSII Early-Career Research Exchange Award QuIESCENT (Quantifying the Indirect Effect: from Sources to Climate Effects of Natural and Transported aerosol in the Arctic) conference
	4.2 Cross-Cutting Projects with events at ASSW 2025 A Polar Early Career World Summit focusing on early career involvement in ICARP IV & 5th IPY  Planning for the next decade in Arctic infrastructure research: a contribution to ICARP IV Polar Educators International’s 6th International Conference and Workshop: Facilitating Collaboration among Educators, Researchers, and Indigenous Communities - From Knowledge to Action”
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:15	5. IASC Organisational Review 2025
16:15 - 17:00	6.  Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV)
	6.1 Update on the progress of the ICARP IV Process
	6.2 How WGs can engage in the ICARP IV Summit
	6.3 Discussion: WG Contributions to the ICARP IV Final Reporting Phase and the Implementation Phase
17:00 - 17:20	7. International Polar Year 2032-33
17:20 - 17:30	8. Any Other Business